Cometh the hour: Can a Scottish Six really deliver?
Nicolson, the former BBC journalist and presenter, slipped easily back into the role of inquisitor-in-chief as he probed and harried the men on that long-standing bone of contention: the Scottish Six.
Questioning them on three already produced pilots, Nicolson kept returning to the least appealing: a programme “topped and tailed” by Jackie Bird in Glasgow, with the national and international news presented from a studio in London. Channelling George Galloway, he suggested any such format would be a “patronising sop”. And though he stopped short of using the word “lickspittle”, the implication was clear: he believed the BBC might yield to pressure to settle for it.
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